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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Expertise drift and query expansion in expert search
Pseudo-relevance feedback, or query expansion, has been shown to improve retrieval performance in the adhoc retrieval task. In such a scenario, a few top-ranked documents are assu...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
AAAI
2006
13 years 10 months ago
OntoSearch: A Full-Text Search Engine for the Semantic Web
OntoSearch, a full-text search engine that exploits ontological knowledge for document retrieval, is presented in this paper. Different from other ontology based search engines, O...
Xing Jiang, Ah-Hwee Tan
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Querying continuous functions in a database system
Many scientific, financial, data mining and sensor network applications need to work with continuous, rather than discrete data e.g., temperature as a function of location, or sto...
Arvind Thiagarajan, Samuel Madden
WWW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Divide, Compress and Conquer: Querying XML via Partitioned Path-Based Compressed Data Blocks
We propose a novel Partition Path-Based (PPB) grouping strategy to store compressed XML data in a stream of blocks. In addition, we employ a minimal indexing scheme called Block S...
Wilfred Ng, Ho Lam Lau, Aoying Zhou